gottcha... that would be amazing it it had it!
I wonder if libreOffice handles collaboration better?
many thanks
On 12/08/14 14:26, Simon Large wrote:
> On 12 August 2014 13:05, lejeczek <peljasz_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> forgive me for I'm a novice and courios
>> but compare, this works, sill no elaborate way to merge?
>> this zips tortoise can unzip, look into xml files and
>> compare, why not merge I wonder?
> TortoiseSVN does not unzip and look into XML files. It is Word itself
> which is doing that. If you look at TSVN->Settings->Diff
> Viewer->Advanced you will see that there is a vbs script set up for
> that file extension, and the script calls Word with the appropriate
> command line flags. There is no Word command to merge files.
>
> Simon
>
>> On 12/08/14 11:54, Simon Large wrote:
>>> On 12 August 2014 10:45, lejeczek <peljasz_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> hi all
>>>> wanted to ask if copy-modify-merge is valid concept for ms
>>>> office under subversion?
>>>> I see everybody says request lock for all office docs and I
>>>> wonder whether it's all precaution or merge actually cannot
>>>> be done on .docx and likes?
>>> Subversion can only merge plain (8-bit) text files. All office docs
>>> are proprietary binary formats and cannot be merged automatically, so
>>> using locks is the only safe way to work with these files.
>>>
>>> Simon
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